• Get ready for a long campaign. "The strategy is to: 'win ugly.' This may be the president's best option, because as he demonstrated this week, it's impossible to give a satisfying answer to the question Ronald Reagan posed in 1980: Are you better off?"

•A favorite Jobs obit, and why he matters to you, personally, dear reader: "And by making devices an extension of ourselves, he helped change our understanding of media; it would no longer be just a system you got information from, but a system you contributed information to." (Also, I just bought this.)